That interview was such a cool read. I’m still in mild disbelief that one dude made this incredible, massive game. Just, mind-boggling.

I live and work in places with asbestos. My parent’s basement has asbestos tiles. They are sealed and they are careful to not cause them trauma.

I love quirky and medical history so such.

Many of the older houses in my city have asbestos-based siding made to look like bricks. Often, they’ll just put up siding right over it, but for those who want to go the whole historic restoration route, it's a major undertaking to remove it and legally dispose of it.

I saw the one on the Tudor home. Fascinating stuff. The most interesting is that the item that became a major killer during the Tudor area is still a major killer today: sugar.

This is very timely, as I was recently reading about how contemporary garment dyes - even natural ones - still can be incredibly toxic to workers.

We have a museum that has many taxidermy animals among other things, some of them are very old (100y+). My school went there in the summer and it was unbearable. Every room that had at least one of these animals in it was filled with a toxic smell. I don’t know if taxidermy animals always smell like that but I’m sure…

Honestly, in place and encapsulated the stuff is completely safe. It is when the fibers are introduced to our lungs that issues arise. Asbestos was incredible common in a number of products - there are still many asbestos roofs in use today. So when present in a floor system and covered up - it is no problem, but…

Bookmarking for later. Can’t wait to get sucked into Youtube tonight!

they thought it was a miracle product because it was fireproof. with highly flammable anesthetic gases in use at the time, I’m sure it sounded like a great idea.

Just about every new chemical/manufacturing discovery is a miracle until the long term effects show up. Thalidomide was considered heaven sent by pregnant women suffering from myasthenia gravis nausea before the horrific birth defects began to appear.

When I was still in elementary school I found my mother’s old history book from middle school and it had a chapter about the industrial revolution and child labour. It had a fake-diary of a child worker whose one friend only had her thumb left on one hand and whose other friend died of some lung disease caused by…

There’s a great doc on this!

Well, fiddle-dee-dee!

This was so beautifully written & fascinating. I have to agree though, it amazes me sometimes that we’ve been able to survive as a species as long as we have considering all the toxic (read: deadly) things we’ve put in & on our bodies.

This was very interesting! Thank you.

This is absolutely terrifying. It looks like a brown recluse bite.

Very true. But Point and Click adventure games barely exist today, certainly not in the same capacity as they used to. Partially because technology has advanced and allows for much more than it used to, and partially because tastes have changed. The big thing is indeed that “if”.

If the game is good, you don’t need any risk to make it work. Point&Click adventure games are a whole genre where it’s impossible to die, but they can be great.

I don't care if it drops the framerate to 3fps, I want that grass in every video game ever made from now on thanks